SAYS TOM WATSON IS FRANK'S SLAYER; Louis Marshall Brands the Populist Editor as Responsible for the Lynching. CITES MOB LAW EDITORIALS Frank's Former Counsel Demands Indictment of the Writer for First-Degree Murder.

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August 18, 1915,

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ALBANY, Aug. 17. -- Louis Marshall, who argued the Frank case before the United States Supreme Court, said tonight that Tom Watson, editor of The Jeffersonian and at one time candidate for President on the Populist ticket, was responsible for the lynching of Leo M. Frank.

August 18, 1915

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